Great-Hearted Books For Boys: Storytime With HannahMary

As promised in her first Storytime book post, Hannah brings us a long list of book titles for boys. Most of these are completely different from my other booklists.

BOOKS FOR BOYS
• Books are listed from youngest [read-alouds] to oldest [young adult]. And adults can enjoy them all!
• Inclusion of an author does not necessarily mean more of their books are recommended. Some were purposely excluded, and some depend on the character of the reader, so were left out.
• Please read with discretion, with the Bible as your standard!

Abbreviations:
LV = search the free audiobook on LibriVox.org
G = free e-book on Gutenberg.org
YT = complete audiobook or samples on my YouTube channel: Storytime with HannahMary
B = blog post on ComeBeStill.blogspot.com (Use the search feature in the top left corner of blog’s home page.)

Storytime With HannahMary

Author – Book Title (Source) [Notes]

Beatrix Potter – The Original Peter Rabbit Books [in 23 volumes]

Marian Potter – The Little Red Caboose (Little Golden Book)

Marjorie Flack – Ping

Don Freeman – Corduroy

Robert McCloskey – Blueberries for Sal

Gertrude Crampton – Tootle (Little Golden Book)

Ray & Sally Cioni – The Droodles

Frances Ridley Havergal [start with pre-reading children]
– Morning Bells; Or, Waking Thoughts for Little Ones (LV, G)
– Little Pillows, or Good-Night Thoughts for Little Ones (LV)

Ken Ham Answers In Genesis books [Great book resource for all ages!]
– My Creation Bible
– A is for Adam; D is for Dinosaur; N is for Noah
– All God’s Children
– The Answers Book for Kids
– Dinosaurs for Kids

Peggy Parish – Amelia Bedelia; Amelia Bedelia Goes Camping; Amelia Bedelia Helps Out [funny plays on words and comical mistakes; I have not read any of the newer books by the author’s nephew and wouldn’t want anyone to accidentally try them without careful previewing by parents.]

Kurt Mitchell – Poor Ralph

Richard Scarry — Pig Will and Pig Won’t (Jacque’s selection)

V. Gilbert Beers – The Magic Merry-Go-Round [a story with the gospel message; does not contain magic]

Thornton Burgess – There are many of these entertaining animal stories teaching character & natural history. [The Creator-God is replaced with references to “Old Mother Nature.”]
– The New Adventures of Old Mister Toad
– The Wonderful World of Buster Bear

A.A. Milne
– Winnie the Pooh (LV, G)
– The House at Pooh Corner

Seymour Eaton – The Roosevelt Bears (LV) [B]

Gertrude Chandler Warner – The Box-Car Children (LV, G) [This 1924 edition uses richer English and has a little more in-depth story than the later version.]

Arletta Richardson – Looking for Home

David Macaulay – The Way Things Work [As I enjoyed this long ago, I no longer remember if the woolly mammoth mascot throughout the book has any evolutionary comments.]

Laura Ingalls Wilder – Farmer Boy [B]

Frances Hodgeson Burnett – Little Lord Fauntleroy (LV, G)

Johanna Spyri
– Maezli (LV, G)
– Moni the Goat-Boy (LV, G)
– What Sami Sings with the Birds (LV, G)
– Vinzi (LV, G) [B]

Lucy Fitch Perkins – The Scotch Twins (LV, G)

Hesba Stretton – Fern’s Hollow (LV)

Edith Nesbit – The Railway Children (LV, G) [B]

Paul Hutchens – Sugar Creek Gang series Bk. 1-6

Marie McSwigan – Snow Treasure

E.B. White – Charlotte’s Web

Mary Mapes Dodge – Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates

Elizabeth Yates
– Sarah Witcher’s Story
– Mountain Born [B]
– Amos Fortune, Free Man [B]

Gloria Repp – Mik Shrok: Adventures of an Arctic Missionary

Charlotte Mary Yonge —
– The Stokesley Secret (G)
– Young Folks’ History of Germany (LV)

Marguerite de Angeli – The Door in the Wall [B]

C.S. Lewis – The Chronicles of Narnia series [B]

Louisa May Alcott
– Little Men (LV, G)
– Jack and Jill (LV, G) [B]

David Collins
– George Washington Carver
– & many more good biographies from a variety of authors in The Sower Series

Janet & Geoff Benge YWAM Book Publishers
– Christian Heroes: Then & Now series
– Heroes of History series

Marianne Kirlew – The Story of John Wesley Told to Boys and Girls (LV, G)

Josephine Pollard – The Life of George Washington in Words of One Syllable (LV, G)

Peter Marshall & David Manuel – The Light and the Glory for Children [B]

Marguerite Henry
– Brighty of the Grand Canyon
– Justin Morgan Had a Horse
– Misty of Chincoteague
– Stormy, Misty’s Foal (LV-in progress, G)
– King of the Wind: The Story of the Godolphin Arabian

Meindert DeJong – The Wheel on the School

Patricia St. John
– Three Go Searching
– Treasures of the Snow
– Star of Light
– Twice Freed
– Rainbow Garden
– The Tanglewoods’ Secret

Piet Prins – Scout: The Secret of the Swamp

More For Older Readers

Jean Lee Latham
– Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
– Young Man in a Hurry – The laying of the 1st Altlantic Cable (hard to find)

Jean Craighead George – Trilogy (My Side of the Mountain / On the Far Side of the Mountain / Frightful’s Mountain)

George MacDonald [B]
– At the Back of the North Wind (LV, G) [B]
– The Princess and the Goblin (LV, G) [B]
– The Princess and Curdie (2 books in 1) (LV, G, YT) [B]

Arthur Ransome – Swallows and Amazons series

Alfred Lansing – Endurance (Jacque’s selection)

R. M. Ballantyne
– Dusty Diamonds, Cut and Polished (G)
– Charlie to the Rescue (LV, G) [a couple of murders]
– Fast in the Ice: Adventures in the Polar Regions (LV, G)

Lois Walfrid Johnson
– Freedom Seeker’s Series
– Viking Quest Series [B]

Frederick Marryat – The Children of the New Forest (LV, G) [murder]

John Bunyan – The Pilgrim’s Progress (LV, G)

Florence Morse Kingsley – Titus, A Comrade of the Cross (LV)

Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe (LV, G)

Chuck Black
– The Kingdom Series [B]
– Knights of Arrethtrae series [B]

Grace Mally – Will Our Generation Speak?

Mary Roberts Rinehart – Tenting Tonight [1916 family camping adventure on horseback through Glacier Park)

Christmas Carol Kaufmann
– Light From Heaven
– Hidden Rainbow

Harriet Beecher Stowe – Uncle Tom’s Cabin (LV, G)

Betty Carlson
– Absolutely and the Golden Eggs

Russell R. Hitt – Jungle Pilot [Biography of Nate Saint – MAF missionary in Ecuador]

Phillip Keller
– Lessons from a Sheep Dog [B]
– A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23 [B]

Buddy Davis – The Great Alaskan Dinosaur Adventure

David Michell – A Boy’s War [a boy’s experience of Chinese prison camp with Eric Liddell]

Booker T. Washington – Up From Slavery (LV, G)

John Hall – The Life of Rev. Henry Martyn (L) [B]

Charlotte Mary Yonge
– The Dove in the Eagle’s Nest (LV, G)
– The Heir of Redclyffe (LV, G)

–The Trial (LV, G) [B]

Howard Pyle – King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table  (Jacque’s selection)

Dr. Ben Carson – Gifted Hands [from an angry young man to the director of pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Children’s]

J. Hudson Taylor – A Retrospect (LV, G)

Norman P. Grubb – C.T. Studd, Cricketer and Pioneer

Hans Kristian & Dave Hunt – Secret Invasion

Brother Andrew – God’s Smuggler

David McCullough – The Wright Brothers

Corrie Ten Boom – The Hiding Place

Charles Dickens
– A Christmas Carol (LV, G)
– A Tale of Two Cities (LV, G)

G. A. Henty
– The Dragon and the Raven: Or The Days of King Alfred (LV, G)
– In Freedom’s Cause (LV, G)

Elisabeth Elliot – Shadow of the Almighty

Ken Ham – The New Answers Book: Over 25 Questions on Creation / Evolution and the Bible

John C. Lennox – Against the Flow

Robert Cornuke – The Lost Shipwreck of Paul and Ark Fever: One Man’s Search For Noah’s Ark (Jacque’s selection)

Lee Strobel
– The Case for Christ
– The Case for Faith

C.S. Lewis – The Screwtape Letters

George Orwell – Animal Farm

George Muller – Answers to Prayer (LV, G)

Frank W. Boreham – Mushrooms on the Moor (LV, G) [B]

Happy reading! What were your favorite books? Drop me a note at one of the links below.  And feel free to share this list with family and friends.
~ Hannah, Summer, 2022

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